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Awards and Honors

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Awards and Honors Home | Living Legends | Poets Laureate
Kluge Prize | Gershwin Prize | Fiction Prize

The Library of Congress sponsors privately endowed programs that honor achievement in the humanities and creativity. Through these awards and prizes, the world's greatest repository of human creativity honors those who have advanced and embodied the ideals of individual creativity, conviction, dedication, scholarship and exuberance.

Last Updated: 09/26/2008

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